Improvement in turnstile-registers



F. O. DESGHAMPS. Turnstile-Register.

No. 215,104. Patented May 6,1879.

Wig a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS 0. DESGHAMPS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TURNSTlLE-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,104, dated May (i,1879; application filed August 10, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Farmers O. DESCHAMPS, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvementin Registering Devices forStreetGars, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct an accurate registeringdevice, especially adapted for use on streetcars or in public halls,8:0. This obj at I attain in the manner which I will now proceed todescribe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-Iiigure l is a longitudinal vertical section of astreet-car platformwith my improved registering apparatus applied thereto; Fig. 2, asectional plan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 3, an inverted plan view;Fig. 4, a section on the line 3 t, Fig. 1; and Figs. 5 and. 6, detachedviews of part of the device.

A represents the rear platform of a streetcar or other vehicle. Thisplatform is closed at the sides, and has a similarlyclosed extension, A,which carries a circular box or cage, B, having ingress and egressopenings a at the points shown. Through this cage passes a central shaftor spindle, I), to which is secured a turnstile, I), having three arms,(3, O, and 0 each arm consisting, in the present instance, of four bars,arranged one above the other, with intervening spaces, so as to permitthe use of guard-arms a on the cage 13.

il lach of the arms of the turnstile is enlarged at the outer end, sothat the spaces between the arms, while large enough to contain oneperson, cannot accommodate two, the enlarged ends of the arms alsoserving to prevent the fraudulent entry of passengers into the car, assaid arms so block the openings a that a passage from one opening to theother cannot be effected without such a n'iovement of the turnstile aswill effect the operation of the registering devices, explainedhereinafter.

To the spindle l), beneath the extension A of the platform, are looselyhung a disk, F, and a ratchet-wheel, G, the two being formed in onepiece, or otherwise secured together.

Secured to or forming part of the ratchet wheel 1;} are threespring-arms, b, one end of each of which projects up into the path ofone of the arms (I of a triangular-plate, J, the hub of which is securedto the lower end of the spindle D.

The spring-arms I) are such that when the plate J turns in the directionof the arrow the ends of the arms are struck by the arms (I of saidplate, and the ratchet G and disk F are turned in the same direction;but when the plate J is turned in a direction contrary to that shown,the springarms are simply depressed, and do not transmit any movement tothe wheel and disk.

The end of each of the arms (I of the plate J carries an anti -frictionroller, 0, which, as the plate turns, bears against the recessed innerside of a spring-arm, f, hung to the bottom of the platform at one sideof the same. To the opposite side of the platform is hung a spring-pawl,g, adapted to the teeth of the ratchet G.

The continuity of the periphery of the disk Fis interrupted by a. numberof recesses, '1', arranged one on each side of a series of lugs orproiections j, forming part of the disk, these lugs or projections beingadapted to recesses m, formed in the edge of a disk, M, secured to thelower end of a vertical shaft, N, at the upper end of which is arrangedsuitable gearing for operating the pointer of a registering device, I,the face of which is opposite the rear door of the car, so as to be inview of the passengers.

The portions 92 of the disk M, between the recesses m, have concaveedges, to which are adapted the convex portions of the disk F, so thatbetween the movements imparted to the disk M by the lugs j of the disk Fsaid disk M is firmly locked in position.

To the shaft or spindle D, near the top of the same, is secured atappet-disk, s, which actuates the spring striking-arm t of a gong, 20,secured to the roof of the plat'lbrm, said tappet-disk being so arrangedin respect to the pawl g that as soon as the latter engages with one ofthe teeth of the ratchet (l, so as to prevent the backward movement ofthe latter, the arm is released and the gong sounded.

The operation of the above-described regis tering apparatus is asfollows: The parts, when at rest, are in the position shown in Figs. 1and 2. A person desiring to enter the car passes through the opening aat the rear of the cage B, and enters the space between the arms 0 and Gof the turnstile. The passenger then turns the latter in the directionof the arrow until the occupied space coincides with the opening aadjacent to the platform A, through which opening and onto the plat-.form the passenger passes, leaving the turnstile in proper position foreither entrance to or departure from the car.

The effect of this partial rotation of the turnstile E was to partiallyrotate, inthe direction of the arrow, the plate J, a like rotation beingthereby imparted to the ratchet-wheel G and diskF, and by the latter tothe disk M, which operates the registering apparatus.

The passenger can retreat at any time before the pawl g engages with thetooth of the ratchet G-that is to say, before the gong w is sounded;but-after this point has been passed his entrance has been registered.Suflicient chance is thus afforded before the operation of theregistering device for the passenger to ascertain whether the car aboutto be entered is the correct one.

Passengers desiring to leave the car move the turnstile in a directioncontrary to that shown by the arrow, such movement having no effect onthe ratchet-wheel G and disk F,

as the plate J is free to turn in this direction without imparting acorresponding movement to the said wheel and disk.

The object of recessing the inner face of the spring-arm f is to holdthe plate J in case the pressure upon the arm of the turnstile is removed, thereby preventing the sudden forward or backward movement of theturnstile which would take place if a plain spring-arm only were used-amovement which would result in striking thepassenger a more or lesssevere blow.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination of the box or cage B,

having a plate, J, with arms d, with the springarmf, having recesses onthe inner side, as r set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS O. DESOHAMPS. Witnesses:

' HENRY HowsoN, Jr.,

HARRY SMITH.

